20 Zlotys Millennium of the Coronation of Boleslaus the Brave

Features

Issuer	Poland
Issuing bank	National Bank of Poland (Narodowy Bank Polski)
Period	Third Republic (1989-date)
Type	Circulating commemorative banknotes
Year	2025
Value	20 Zlotys (20 Złotych) 20 PLN = USD 5.43
Currency	Fourth Zloty (1995-date)
Composition	Hybrid substrate
Size	170 × 85 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Issued	5 November 2025
Number	N# 525355

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Commemorative issue

MILLENIUM OF THE CORONATION OF BOLESLAUS THE BRAVE

Series: NBP Commemorative note series

Obverse

The front side of the banknote depicts an image of Boleslaus the Brave according to the print by Rudolf Fryderyk Friedlein from ca. 1857, which was inspired by the portrait of the King by Marcello Bacciarelli. Next to the image, there is a decorative security stripe in gold and silver, with a print featuring a fragment of the bordure of the Gniezno Doors and the banknote's denomination. The year 1025 is placed in the centre of the banknote as one of its security features visible in ultraviolet light. In the bottom right corner, there is a recto-verso security feature depicting a stylised fragment of the tip of the Lance of Nętno.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
NARODOWY BANK POLSKI 20
DWADZIEŚCIA ZŁOTYCH
WARSZAWA, 21 STYCZNIA 2025 R.
PREZES
GŁÓWNY SKARBNIK
TYSIĄCLECIE KORONACJI BOLESŁAWA CHROBREGO

Translation:
NATIONAL BANK OF POLAND 20
TWENTY ZLOTYS
WARSAW, 21st JANUARY 2025
CEO
MAIN TREASURER
MILLENIUM OF THE CORONATION OF BOLESŁAW THE BRAVE

Engraver: Przemysław Krajewski

Designer: Agnieszka Próchniak

Reverse

The back side of the banknote, composed in a vertical arrangement, features, among others, the image of three panels of the Gniezno Doors (depicting the following scenes: the ransoming of St. Adalbert's body from the Prussians by Bolesław the Brave, the transfer of St. Adalbert's body, and the burial of St. Adalbert's remains in Gniezno) and the obverse and reverse of Princes Polonie, a coin from the reign of Boleslaus the Brave, as well as the tip of the Lance of Saint Maurice.
Scenes from the Gniezno Doors and the coin's obverse can be seen in ultraviolet light.
This side of the banknote also features a crown-shaped window cut into the paper, inside which one can see a gold fragment of the security stripe of the banknote's front side. In the transmitted light - the window is seen in blue.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
NARODOWY
BANK POLSKI
20
BANKNOTY EMITOWANE PRZEZ NARODOWY BANK POLSKI SĄ PRAWNYM ŚRODKIEM PŁATNICZYM W POLSCE
A. PRÓCHNIAK DEL.
P. KRAJEWSKI SC. PWPW S.A.
20
DWADZIEŚCIA ZŁOTYCH

Translation:
NATIONAL
BANK OF POLAND
20
BANKNOTES ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL BANK OF POLAND ARE LEGAL TENDER IN POLAND
A. PRÓCHNIAK DEL.
P. KRAJEWSKI SC. PWPW S.A.
20
TWENTY ZLOTYS

Engraver: Przemysław Krajewski

Designer: Agnieszka Próchniak

Watermark

The watermark depicts the image of a fragment of the bordure of the Gniezno Doors and the notation of the coronation year of Boleslaus the Brave

Printer

Polish Security Printing Works (Polska Wytwórnia Papierów Wartościowych S.A.), Warsaw, Poland (1919-date)

Comments

In the microtext on both the obverse and reverse of the banknote appears an epitaph from the king’s sarcophagus:
Inclyte dux tibi laus strenue Boleslae / Illustrious leader, praise be to you, valiant Bolesław.

For more information regarding this banknote, visit the official Website of the National Bank of Poland

The banknote originally comes with a folder.

The Front:

The Back:

Alongside with the folder, a brochure also was included:

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Date			No. printed		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
2025-Jan-21			70 000							$ 52

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